Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll try to be as brief as I can.
Thank you, everyone, for being with us. It's nice to see those of you who are here again and it's nice to see some of the new ones too.
There's a great consensus forming around this table, I think, that one of the basic fundamental things we should be doing as a government, generally speaking, is to coordinate our efforts, so that there's that coordination, whether we refer to it as an “export concierge” or just giving tools to our agencies that are meant to help export. I think there was consensus on that.
That makes me want to ask Mr. Dekker about STEP, because to me STEP seems to be the solution in some aspects. You said that Saskatchewan's population is only about 1.2 million, so by necessity it's a trading province. We're lucky that 10% of this committee is from Saskatchewan. That's great. We're punching above our weight on this committee, which is amazing. Canada's population in the world is small, too, so I think the same sort of premise exists.
As a federal government, what can we steal from you to copy that system? Is it even appropriate to do so?